Members of the board of directors

CATHERINE DELHAYE

PRESIDENT OF LE CERCLE

Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Valeo
Former Deputy General Counsel and VP Regulatory Ethics and Compliance and Social Responsibility for Accenture

​Since March 2012, she has served as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Valeo. Previously a lawyer in Paris, she started her career at the Alain Bensoussan firm before joining the distribution division of Valeo in 1994 as General Counsel. She joined Accenture in 1996 to create their France-Benelux Legal Department. After being named Vice-President in charge of Regulatory Ethics and Compliance and Social Responsibility for the region, she was quickly promoted to Regulatory, Ethics and Compliance Director for Accenture worldwide.

BLANDINE CORDIER-PALASSE

VICE-PRESIDENT OF LE CERCLE

Managing Partner of BCP Executive Search, Former lawyer and legal director for large companies.

With a doctorate in Business Law from the Paris I University, a Master in Finance from ESCP and as a former lawyer from Paris, she first worked as a lawyer for six years at the Slaughter & May firm in Paris and in London. She then joined the corporate world as General Counsel for the Parfinance group, Secretary of the Executive Board for the Gemplus group (now Gemalto) and General Counsel for the Siparex group. She became a partner at Boyden Executive Search before creating her own firm, Blandine Cordier Executive Search.

DANIEL TRICOT

MEMBRE DU CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRATION DU CERCLE

Former President of the commercial, financial and economic chambers of the Court of Appeal.

Doctor and professor of Law. He served as a lawyer in Dijon and then in Besançon from 1964 to 1991 and was a law professor (Université de Bourgogne) from 1965 to 2000.
Professor of civil law and business law at the university, he presided as Dean of the university from 1978 to 1981. He also led a research center for distribution and consumer law (CERJUDICO).
Former President of the commercial, financial and economic chambers of the Court of Appeal. Since July 2007, he has been practicing domestic and international arbitrations as well as business mediations.
He acted as a specialist advisor to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and worked under this title for the International Trade Centre in of Geneva under the World Trade Centre (WTO).